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WYTU-LD, virtual channel 63 (UHF digital channel 17), is a Telemundo-affiliated television station located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States. The station is owned by Chicago-based Weigel Broadcasting, and is a sister station to CBS affiliate WDJT-TV (channel 58), Me-TV owned-and-operated station WBME-CD (channel 41) and independent station WMLW-TV (channel 49). All four stations share studio facilities located on South 60th Street in Milwaukee (near West Allis), and its transmitter is located in Milwaukee's Lincoln Park (next to the transmitter belonging to ABC affiliate WISN-TV). Even though WYTU-LP has a digital signal of its own, the low-powered broadcasting radius does not reach the entire Milwaukee market. Therefore, the station is simulcast in standard defiintion over WMLW-TV's second digital subchannel in order to reach the entire market. This signal can be seen on UHF channel 48.4 (or virtual channel 49.4 via PSIP) from the same Lincoln Park transmitter site. The station's signal is also relayed on WMYS-LD (digital channel 69.2) in South Bend, Indiana and WFBN-LD (channel 35) in Rockford, Illinois. The station airs all of Telemundo's schedule along with Spanish-language coverage of some Milwaukee Brewers baseball games. WYTU is also available via Charter Communications throughout their entire state service area as far west as La Crosse and as north as Wausau, making for a rare example of an intra-region superstation in the digital age. ==History== The station has mostly been a feeder of the entire schedule of Univision and Telemundo through most of its history with minimal local programming. In 1999, Weigel dropped Univision in a compensation dispute and affiliated with Telemundo, and within the year, the station moved to UHF channel 63 from channel 46 as W63CU, in order to accommodate WDJT's digital signal and the company's move to one tower for all its operations which made the transition nearly seamless. In mid-December 2003, the station took the lettered call sign WYTU-LP, as it began to solicit local advertising from the growing Latino population in the Milwaukee area and Weigel began to push for extended cable coverage by including it in retransmission consent negotiations for WDJT. The station signed on its digital signal on UHF channel 17 on December 10, 2007.〔(New low power digital station - MilwaukeeHDTV.org Forums )〕 Unlike the channel 13 digital signal of WMLW (which receives interference from WZZM in Grand Rapids, WYTU-LD's digital signal reaches the southern portion of the adjacent Green Bay/Appleton DMA, and is somewhat unrestricted as WXMI, the former occupant of channel 17 in the Grand Rapids market, now broadcasts on digital channel 20, although that station's Muskegon translator W17DF-D also broadcasts on channel 17. As a result of carriage agreements by Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications for access to the WDJT signal and to provide network service to areas without a Telemundo affiliate, WYTU is carried on those cable providers in portions of both the Green Bay/Fox Cities and Madison markets. For Charter, it has an additional channel slot within each provider's "Latino tier" of Spanish language programming, and in this form, the WYTU-LD feed is used statewide to provide Telemundo service, including in Wausau, Eau Claire and La Crosse. In January 2009, WYTU was added to sister station WBME's digital signal on digital subchannel 49.4, calls which changed on August 16, 2012 as part of the channel swap between WBME and WMLW to allow WMLW to launch full-power high definition operations.〔(Obama urges Congress to delay digital transition amid coupon shortage ), ''Milwaukee Journal Sentinel'', January 8, 2009.〕 A power increase for its transmitter is currently on hold due to the station's signal conflicts with WHME-TV in South Bend, Indiana, but beyond those systems carrying 63.1's high definition signal, WMLW-DT4 effectively acts as the feed used for cable providers and is promoted ahead of 63.1 during station identification sequences. The station's analog signal on channel 63 did not broadcast the Telemundo Wisconsin schedule from June 12, 2009 onward, when Weigel decided to convert that signal to an enhanced nightlight service instead, carrying WDJT's CBS schedule for the benefit of those viewers who were not yet prepared for the digital transition for full-power stations. The special agreement to carry CBS in an analog form ended on January 1, 2010, and from then until 2011 WYTU-LP carried the Me-TV lineup, while Telemundo Wisconsin remained a digital-only offering via WYTU's digital signal and WMLW-DT4.〔(Channels 58, 41 to keep analog broadcasts ), ''Milwaukee Business Journal'', June 5, 2009.〕 On February 11, 2013, the Federal Communications Commission cancelled WYTU's analog license.〔(Federal Communications Commission )〕 The station converted their low-power channel 17 digital signal into a 720p high definition signal on July 25, 2012, in time for Telemundo's Spanish language coverage of the 2012 Summer Olympics. Following the Games, the station carried for the first time in team history Green Bay Packers preseason football with Spanish language play-by-play in full high definition on its designated digital signal. In summer 2014, the standard definition simulcast on WMLW-DT4 began to scale network content to standard definition widescreen depending on Active Format Description codes sent out over the Telemundo network feed. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「WYTU-LD」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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